National Republican Party

The National Republican Party was a liberal political party in the United States that existed from 1828 to 1833, emerging as the result of a split within the Democratic-Republican Party. The party was founded by John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, who were opposed to the conservative policies of Andrew Jackson and his own breakaway faction, the US Democratic Party; many members of the National Republicans were former Federalist Party members. In 1833, after Adams' defeat, a coalition of National Republicans, Anti-Masonic Party members, disaffected Democrats, and former federalists formed the US Whig Party to oppose Jackson's reforms.